Description
Compensation
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
About the Team
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Design Systems team creates the foundations that help teams across OpenAI build coherent, high-quality experiences at scale.
Accessibility is fundamental to that work. We’re building the shared standards, components, tools, and practices that make inclusive experiences the default across OpenAI’s products and platforms.
About the Role
In this role, you’ll lead OpenAI’s company-wide accessibility program from within Design Foundations. You’ll pair strategy and organizational influence with hands-on product design,advocating for disabled people, removing barriers across complete customer journeys, and establishing durable ownership throughout the company.
This is an opportunity to define accessibility for a new generation of products spanning web, mobile, desktop, voice, AI, and hardware. You’ll help teams consider the many ways people perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with technology, going beyond minimum compliance to create experiences that are genuinely useful and inclusive.
Working across design, engineering, research, product, go-to-market, and legal, you’ll make accessibility an expected part of product quality,not a final review or the responsibility of a single expert.
Responsibilities
- Define OpenAI’s accessibility strategy, roadmap, governance, priorities, and measures of progress.
- Design and ship accessible experiences while identifying systemic barriers across complete customer journeys.
- Build accessibility into our design system through inclusive components, tokens, interaction patterns, Figma libraries, documentation, and engineering guardrails.
- Center disabled people through participatory research, usability studies, and assistive-technology testing rather than relying solely on assumptions, simulations, or automated tools.
- Design for permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities, including multiple ways to perceive information, navigate interfaces, understand content, and complete important tasks.
- Establish practical standards for screen readers, keyboard navigation, focus, reading order, contrast, typography, motion, captions, forms, errors, and multimodal interactions.
- Lead accessibility audits, remediation priorities, launch readiness, and continuous validation across platforms.
- Partner with go-to-market, legal, compliance, and product teams on enterprise readiness, accessibility documentation, procurement needs, and customer commitments.
- Grow company-wide capability through training, critiques, engineering partnerships, and a network of accessibility champions.
Requirements
- Have led accessibility or inclusive-design work across multiple teams, products, or platforms.
- Pair deep accessibility expertise with strong interaction design, systems thinking, and a high bar for product craft.
- Understand the relationship between accessibility, usability, and inclusive design,and know when to go beyond standards to meet real human needs.
- Have deep practical knowledge of WCAG, assistive technologies, accessible interaction design, and platform-specific standards.
- Have embedded accessibility into design systems, reusable components, and engineering workflows.
- Have worked directly with disabled people and translated their experiences into meaningful product and organizational decisions.
- Can identify assumptions and exclusion within a product journey, then turn those insights into clearer and more flexible ways to interact.
- Are equally effective setting strategy, designing detailed experiences, and collaborating with engineers through implementation.
- Can influence across disciplines without direct authority, creating shared accountability without becoming a centralized approval gate.